CALL FOR ARTISTS – URGENT Garde Blanche – L’art pour L’artiste The FIRST reaction on our call, is THE ARTIST TO INSTALL! MORE SPEED, MORE GLORY!
GARDE BLANCHE IS SEARCHING FOR FLEXIBLE, AMBITIOUS ARTISTS FOR SOLO-EXHIBITIONS IN NOVEMBER 2010! SO PAY ATTENTION ARTISTS / ART COLLECTIVES!!! At the end of 2010 NP3 initiates a number of projects in which she releases the well considered artistic choice and curatorship completely. For example the project Ranking The Arts. In this project NP3 hands over the curatorschip once only to the big boss Google: www.ranking-the-arts.com . With the project GARDE BLANCHE NP3 is looking for the FASTEST artist. ONLY ONCE NP3 offers artists from all disciplines, without taking matters to her own hands, the opportunity to exhibit. Absolutely free of policy, without balloting, without studio visits, without the discussion about why and how so in NP3, but 'Carte Blanche'... START APPLICATIONS: 10 OCTOBER 2010 FROM 10.00 O'CLOCK INSTALLING EXHIBITION: 11 – 18 NOVEMBER 2010 EXHIBITION PERIOD: 19 NOVEMBER TO 19 DECEMBER 2010 NP3 offers three spaces to exhibit: 1. PROMO The Bill and Board 2. NULL 3. DISplay We are searching for three artists or art collectives that are ready for an exhibition / presentation: the FIRST artist(s) signing up on 10 October 2010 from exactly 10.00 o'clock for one of the three spaces are the exhibitors of Garde Blanche. HOW IT WORKS: -check your agenda on feasibility within your personal schedule; -go to the website of NP3 and check photo's, floor plans and dimensions of the three spaces: www.np3.nu > NOW > Garde Blanche; -the proposal is specific for ONE of the three possible spaces NULL, DISplay or PROMO The Bill and Board; -decide for which space you want to make a project proposal; -make a clear project proposal that gives a good impression of your plans; -mail your proposal as quickly as possible at the start of the applications on 10.10.2010 from10.00 o'clock to ikwil@np3.nu; -if your mail arrives FIRST, you are the winner and you get an exhibition in the space you have chosen.
YOUR MAIL INCLUDES: -your name and phone number; -the subject of the mail is the chosen space:
NULL DISplay PROMO The Bill and Board; -your project proposal (maximum of 5MB)
CONDITIONS: -there will be no review on the specific artistic content, we only test the feasability and safety; -the project proposal has to contain an exhibitionplan that can be realized within the available time; -submitting a proposal is a binding agreement: winning means producing the exhibition; -there will be no deviation from the date of arrange and the exhibition period; -the artist is responsible for the realization of the exhibition; -application is possible for maximal one exhibition space; -in consultation a budget is available (for example costs for transport and installing the exhibition); -there will be no correspondence about the outcome; -NP3 employees and their relatives are excluded from participation; -by submitting a project proposal you agree to these terms!
EXTRA: To view spaces: during opening hours: from 1 October 2010 thursday - sunday from 14.00-18.00 o'clock. For questions about practical / technical matters you can contact Zwaan Ipema via: mail to hier@np3.nu or by telephone +31 (0)50 3138260 on friday 1 October and friday 8 October between 10.00 - 17.00 o'clock. If necessary we will provide additional information on this CALL during the run up to the application. So check this information regularly! Groningen, 24 September 2010